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Larval development — Metapenaeus dobsoni (Miers)

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Title Larval development — Metapenaeus dobsoni (Miers)
 
Creator Muthu, M S
Pillai, N N
George, K V
 
Subject Eggs and Larvae
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description Complete larval history of Metapenaeus dobsoni was studied by rearing them in the laboratory.
At the rearing temperature of 25.5°C to 26.8°C the viable eggs took 16-17 hours to hatch; the duration of
the nauplius stage was 40-56 hours; protozoea took 5-7 days to reach the mysis stage and the mysis
transformed into postlarva I after 6-9 days. Thus it took U-20 days for the eggs to develop through the
various larval stages into postlarva I. The larvae pass through 6 nauplius substages., 3 protozoea sub-
stages and 5 mysis substages before reaching the postlarva! stage. There may be one or two inter
mediate substages between the last mysis substage and postlarva I. All the larval stages are described
and illustrated, and compared with the earlier larval descriptions of the species.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1979
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/667/1/Bulletin_No_28-5-30.pdf
Muthu, M S and Pillai, N N and George, K V (1979) Larval development — Metapenaeus dobsoni (Miers). CMFRI Bulletin, 28. pp. 30-39.